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Misuse of Anti-Extremism in January - August 2016, in Brief
This brief overview focuses on major legislative initiatives and criminal law enforcement statistics that pertain to combating extremism in the first eight months of 2016. This report covers only the aspects of legislation and law enforcement practice that we see as leading to human rights violations and excessive restrictions of civil liberties.
Anti-Extremism in Virtual Russia, 2014–2015

This report by Natalia Yudina is an analytic review of the enforcement of anti-extremist legislation on the Russian segment of the Internet in 2014 and 2015. Download the report on the openDemocracy (doc) and on SOVA (pdf).

Got tagged? Get fined! Russia’s battle against “digital extremism”
This piece by Natalia Yudina is about the peculiarities of enforcing the anti-extremist law on the Internet in Russia. (Русский)
Inappropriate Enforcement of Anti-Extremist Legislation in Russia in 2015
This report by Alexander Verkhovsky and Maria Kravchenko is an analytic review of inappropriate enforcement of the anti-extremist legislation based on the SOVA's monitoring conducted in 2015.